"THE SPECTATOR" CROSSWORD No. 480
[A Book Token for one guinea will be awarded to the sender of the first correct solution of this week's crossword to be opened after noon on Tuesday week yune 15th. Envelopes must be received not later than first post that day and must bear the word " Crossword," the NUMBER of the puzzle and a 21d. stamp. Solutions must be on the form below, and none can be accepted from the U.S.A. The solution and the name of the winner will be published in the following issue.]
ACROSS
1. Probably not the schoolboy's favourite version of the talkies. (6,
3. I get tangled with cord. (5.) 8. "Fear no more the heat o' the sun Nor the furious winter's -" (Shakespeare). (5.) 9. Dr. Bradley does, at least in fiction.
11. It will take your ammunition and boiler, too. (9.) 12. Ferdinand the windbag. (5.) 13. The key to music. (4.) 14. She will briefly introduce the case.
18. Rests in the train ? Just the reverse.
21. The bird encores itself. (4.) 23. An entrant in the City and Sub- urban. (5.) 25. Where the Scot turned back and might finally have come sooner. (9.) 27. Edward perhaps. (9.) 28. Pretend. (5.) 29. Lightens. (5.) 30. The less often they are hit the better. (4, 5.)
DOWN
1. It can, of course, be trimmed to little more than a bush (5.) 2. Send Green (anag.). (9.) 3. He was delivered in one sort of 14. (6.) 4. Sea bird in the handcuffs. (7-) 5. Not quite whet the lover in "In Summertime on Bredon " demanded.
6. He is srabmerged in liquor, hence the moisture. (5.) 7. Dance accompan'sts. (9.
10. Dash it, it's dotty too ! (5.) 13. It's precious painful. (9.
15. Step on it, King. (3.) 16. Brothers in a post unsorted. (9.) 17. "Then ye returned to your -; then ye contented your souls. . . ." (Kipling). (8.) 19. Cain's disguise. (5.) 20. "Sound the loud - o'er Egypt's dark sea " (Moore). (7.) 22. The last word in housing. (6.) 24. Good to us abroad. (5.) 26. Showing that skins can be changed.
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